The National
Registry of
Exonerations
Explore data and read stories about exonerations in the United States.
Exonerations by State
Newly Published Exonerations
On Thursday, October 23, 2008, 44-year-old Michael Porter and his wife, Linda, were driving from their home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to watch a football game in which Linda’s son was playing at…
On May 21, 2004, the body of 73-year-old Eugene Garner was found in his home in Waycross, Georgia. Neighbors called the police after entering his house, seeing signs of a struggle, and smelling…
Just before 5 a.m. on August 1, 2000, a waitress found the body of 59-year-old A.J. Williams inside his restaurant, A.J.’s Tip Top Restaurant, on the west side of Elkhart, Indiana. Williams was face…
On the afternoon of August 23, 2013, a pickup truck drove up to a group of young men standing on Virginia Avenue in Lynwood, California. The truck’s window was down, and the driver said, “Where are…
At 5:35 p.m. on November 14, 1974, 21-year-old D.D. arrived at the Western Hills Mall in Fairfield, Alabama, where she worked part-time at a furniture store while attending college at Jefferson…
On January 18, 2014, a man with a gun robbed a Family Dollar store in Durham, North Carolina. Ten days later, at around 7 p.m., a Dollar Tree store in another section of Durham was robbed at gunpoint…
On February 26, 1993, between 8:30-9 p.m., Keith Robinson was shot outside the Mission Hill Housing Projects in Boston, Massachusetts, and was pronounced dead a short while later at Brigham and Women…
At about 6 p.m. on June 29, 1998, three men got out of a car parked in front of Fidelity Financial Services, a loan office in a strip mall in Fullerton, California. Two of them knocked on the door…
EVERY STORY COUNTS.
The Registry is a living archive of injustice. We collect, analyze, and publish comprehensive information on all known exonerations of criminal defendants in the United States.
We study the frequency and distribution of exonerations, and the causes, costs, and consequences of wrongful convictions. We make our data, research, and stories broadly accessible. Our goal is to be a resource for those who want to improve the criminal legal system and make it more accountable.
The Registry is a project of the Michigan State University College of Law, the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at the University of California—Irvine, and the University of Michigan Law School.
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Reports
In the Press
The New York Times
Blind MagazineFalse Confessions: the Victims of American Justice (6/15/2026)
USA TodayHe spent decades in prison. How the botched murder case was uncovered. (5/19/2026)
